USCGC Polar Star, the service's only heavy icebreaker, at Coast Guard Base Seattle on Nov. 13, 2025. The ship is preparing to ...

The Cold War was a globe-spanning contest with American forces facing down Soviet aggression from Middle Eastern deserts to the Arctic’s glaciers. Yet, after the Soviet Union’s collapse, American ...

Leading Musician Paine, who was born in Adelaide but now lives in Auckland’s Bayswater, is among the 21 NZDF personnel who ...

The Great Blue Hole is the largest sea hole in the world and is in the center of Lighthouse Reef, a small atoll near the Belize City mainland, and is part of the Great Barrier Reef Reserve System. It ...

On Oct. 12, 1957, history was made when the first-ever commercial flight to Antarctica departed from San Francisco, carrying 37 passengers to the U.S. Naval facility at McMurdo Sound station. Thirty ...

Flying through brutal weather in the permanent night of an Antarctic winter, the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) successfully rescued three personnel from America's McMurdo Station in the ...

WASHINGTON — Three people needing medical care were airlifted out from a U.S. scientific base in Antarctica this week during a perilous rescue mission. The Royal New Zealand Air Force conducted the ...